NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 81 - Can the last green dot please turn off the lights

robelgordo wrote:RFM free to talk to other clubs: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/bulldogs-officially-grant-faitala-mariner-permission-to-negotiate-with-rival-clubs-20230905-p5e25c.html

Fall from grace seems to be being named the club captain, acting like a club captain by raising player concerns about club culture, and being frozen out a result.

Also RFM got pneumonia from training while sick, was hospitalised for a week and lost 6kgs, which explains his low involvement at the back end of the season.

tl;dr Bulldogs club in shambles.

I've had a crack at the Bulldogs Admin/Leadership before but it sounds like the old 'respect my authoritaaaayyy' play before you've done anything to get them onside.

It's like the response to the wrestling thing...lots of old Bulldogs going 'in my day we blah blah blah....too soft' missing the whole point that it's not about the physicality of the punishment, it's about humiliating someone in front of their peers and using those peers to enforce your authority regardless of whether or not they are comfortable with the humiliation being dealt out. Players don't expect to get away scott free but if you humiliate someone you won't get respect you'll get hatred. It would also be more likely to lose you respect from other players. TBH it's a pretty piss weak move from an amateur leader.

Blaming the players is a massive cop out (particularly when a large % of the playing group has been recruited in the last few years).

Yeah even if it is the players you can never publicly blame the players. Huge management issues IMO. FWIW word from the shire is wrestling victim is exploring legal options.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:A 50/50 I would like to have again is when Preston was a late out in Rd21 and I had Nikora (718k) and Haumole (621k) to choose from as a replacement. I went Nikora based on the Sharks being a more in form team at the time I think.

Haumole scored 419 points to Nikoras 307. I also clearly remember needing the 100k or so to make some great trades the following week. So it snowballed somewhat. 

Great game this is

Both Haumole and DCE score better when Turbo is out

mattnz wrote:
Both Haumole and DCE score better when Turbo is out

Cheers bro, where was that nugget 6 weeks ago

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
Cheers bro, where was that nugget 6 weeks ago

I had posted it before then when Turbo went down.

Confirmed Departures Knights: Lachlan Miller (Leeds), ⁠Lachlan Fitzgibbon (Warrington), Kurt Mann (Bulldogs/SL?), ⁠Hymel Hunt, Bailey Hodgson, Dane Aukafolau, Adam Clune (Huddersfield?), ⁠Dominic Young (Roosters), ⁠Simi Sasagi (Raiders), ⁠Jack Johns

Bailey Sironen confirmed departing Warriors

Danny Weidler reporting Hutchison to Dogs and the most expected move of Kyle Flanagan to Dragons

I hear there are less than 48 hours left to vote for the Fanatic Awards;

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mattnz wrote:

I had posted it before then when Turbo went down.

Well I’ll make sure I remember to go back a further month and a half to find that sort of info.

easytiger wrote:I hear there are less than 48 hours left to vote for the Fanatic Awards;

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This EDG Kai Pearce-Paul coming to Knights in 2024 from Wigan seems alright based off the view of stats before I decided to tear my hair out trying to use the Super League website

Dragons are releasing Hunt to the Broncos… Jaiyden Hunt, that is.

Me: Mum, can we get the Clearys as a Father/Son combo for our club?

Mum: No, we have a Father/Son combo at home.

Father/Son combo at home:


https://twitter.com/Danny_Weidler/status/1699333156376334740







To the surprise of fucking nobody.

my tv broke wrote:Me: i guess theyre looking for some old buggers to make a footy movie.

Also me: fuck, im in that age group now

It'll never be better than that one where Ahn Do and The Enforcer from Recovery led a team of misfits from Yagoona to beat a bunch of ex-pros including Brett Kenny, Brad Clyde and ROD WISHART. Can't even remember the name of it but 6/10 would watch again.

Robertneville wrote:Me: Mum, can we get the Clearys as a Father/Son combo for our club?

Mum: No, we have a Father/Son combo at home.

Father/Son combo at home:


https://twitter.com/Danny_Weidler/status/1699333156376334740







To the surprise of fucking nobody.

We're about a month away from the 2024 halves combo being Flanagan/Amone. It's so gross.

robelgordo wrote:

It'll never be better than that one where Ahn Do and The Enforcer from Recovery led a team of misfits from Yagoona to beat a bunch of ex-pros including Brett Kenny, Brad Clyde and ROD WISHART. Can't even remember the name of it but 6/10 would watch again.

I remember seeing that movie again only a couple of months ago on fox. I think it's called Footy Legends.

robelgordo wrote:

It'll never be better than that one where Ahn Do and The Enforcer from Recovery led a team of misfits from Yagoona to beat a bunch of ex-pros including Brett Kenny, Brad Clyde and ROD WISHART. Can't even remember the name of it but 6/10 would watch again.

Pacey's Best wrote:

I remember seeing that movie again only a couple of months ago on fox. I think it's called Footy Legends.

Pretty sure that was the movie that launched 'The Enforcer' (Angus Sampson) into a long and surprisingly successful career in Hollywood and inadvertently launched the career of renaissance man Anh Do in the niche field of comic portrait painting.

my tv broke wrote:Me: i guess theyre looking for some old buggers to make a footy movie.

Also me: fuck, im in that age group now

Thought so too then one came through this morning exactly the same but for Basketball, it's a drama series guessing about sport and they need old extras. I thought fuck it and applied.